March 25, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- One reason to expect some kind of victory for marriage equality in this week's Supreme Court hearings: Justice Kennedy.
- Republicans see fundraising opportunities in New York, Florida, and California if they back gay marriage.
- From November 2012, Alex Ross on the gay community’s political progress in his lifetime and earlier.
- Webcomic: Twenty-five-year-old chronicles his adventures into the world of gay.
- America's energy needs could be met by renewables right now; the problem is the politics.
- Human-rights groups want Guantánamo Bay's prison closed, not expanded; renovation estimated to cost $195.7 million.
- Human cannonballs travel between 75 and 100 feet at a force of seven g, and generally don't remember much about the flight.
- Oscar-winning actor Tilda Swinton currently sleeping in public at MoMA on occasion.
- Cultural impresario, intellectual provocateur, voice of a continent: Chinua Achebe dies at 82.
- President of impoverished Central African Republic flees as rebels seize presidential palace.
- Today's white paper: "The Floor Effect: Impoverished Spatial Memory for Elevator Buttons."
- In Hale County, Alabama, 1 in 4 working-age adults is on disability. On the day government checks come in every month, banks stay open late.
- Q&A with travel writer who's attempting to hitchhike to all 50 states on privately owned planes.
- Developers who create touchscreen software for children explain their own concerns and rules as parents.
- Tokyo café lets customers rent laser cutter and 3d printer so they can make gummi versions of themselves.
- Texas Monthly magazine appoints its first barbecue editor; health implications reportedly not discussed during hiring.
